Doherty v. Connecticut Co.

In this negligence action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s decedent, who was run over and killed by a trolley car of the defendant in New Haven on January 12, 1945, the plaintiff had a verdict which the court on the defendant’s motion set aside. The plaintiff has appealed, and the defendant by its assignments of error has-attacked the court’s finding. It has also filed a bill of exceptions on the ground of errors in the court’s charge to the jury.

The court set aside the verdict for the plaintiff on the ground that it had erred in its charge by submitting to the jury the…